If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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